In collaboration with Data Science Rotterdam we organize another meetup.
There will be food, three talks about data science in industry on three very different topics, and an opportunity to network afterwards.
For details and RSVP, please look at https://www.meetup.com/Data-Science-Rdm/events/236965605/

Now that the GPUs have become standard, FPGAs are the next step in accelerating computations for less Watts. FPGA's are however even harder to program for: it feels more like designing hardware than writing software.
The guest speaker from QBayLogic will present a solution that they have developed for this issue. The core of it is to generate a description of the hardware within a functional programming language. This description can then be reasonably close to the mathematical formulation of the problem.
The talk is at 13:00. We'd love it if you want to join us for lunch at 12:30.

The schedule and content of these public lunch lectures are as follows:
12h00-12h45: "Introduction to OpenMP", by Maarten Bosmans, scientific software engineer at VORtech
- How to use OpenMP to harness the power of all CPU cores.
- Which pitfalls to avoid when using OpenMP.
13h15-14h00:
"Floating point inaccuracy and sensitivity in computational models" by Werner Kramer, scientific software engineer at VORtech
- Which factors influence the reproducibility of model results?
- How to account for model sensitivity in software testing.

The schedule and content of these public lunch lectures are as follows:
12h00-12h45: "Integrating data and computational models", by Nils van Velzen, principal software engineer and partner at VORtech
- How to spectacularly improve model predictions by integrating measurement data in the computational process?
- The pros and cons of developing your own data-assimilation module compared to using OpenDA.
13h15-14h00:
"High Performance Computing in the cloud", by Koos Huijssen, scientific software engineer at VORtech
- State and developments of HPC in the cloud.
- When would you opt for computing in the cloud? How to select a good cloud service provider?

The schedule and content of these public lunch lectures are as follows:
12h00-12h45: "Introduction to version management with Git", by Maarten Bosmans, Scientific software engineer at VORtech
- Why should you track software changes and how can Git assist?
- What are the conceptual differences between Git and Subversion? How do you collaborate in a mixed Git-SVN environment?
13h15-14h00:
"Introduction to modern Fortran for model software" by Nils van Velzen, principal scientific software engineer and partner at VORtech
- How do you employ Fortran[masked] features to obtain better computational software?
- Which array types exist in Fortran? What are the differences between pointer, allocatable, assumed shape and assumed size?

The schedule and content of these public lunch lectures are as follows:
12h00-12h45: "Computational software in a commercial setting", by Mark Roest, VORtech general director
- What is the path of an academic model towards an operational product?
- How did the field of scientific software engineering develop, what has remained and what is coming up?
13h15-14h00:
"Introduction to High Performance Computing" by Koos Huijssen, scientific software engineer at VORtech
- What is important for well-performing code on a modern computational platform?
- When would you employ a computational cluster or a GPU, what are the costs and gains?